The iPad: My Ménage A Trois With A Media Machine

Publishers will be salivating over the creative possibilities now
that they can get there hands on an iPad. The mechanical aspect
of the device is so transparent as to invisible, it is all
screen, a ménage a trois between your eyes, your fingers and a
device. Touch, still a novelty to much of the population, got bar
mitzvahed today, and may begin to grow into a far more robust,
mainstream interface. More experienced Valley hands had suggested
that far more than a glorified e-reader, the tablet would be an
aggressive play into the computer space and the announcement this
morning bore that out.

Today represented an inflection point in digital history and a
reset button for the industry. Microsoft developed the operating
system for the modern computer, Google developed the operating
system for the Web, and Apple want to be the operating system
between the consumer and the growing heaps of media that
consumers take in.